The Edinburgh annual register, Volumen 121823 |
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Página 97
... witness to the anxiety which had been shown to find out subjects of taxation which would be most pro- ductive and least oppressive . A tax upon articles of luxury would not have answered the purpose . They were therefore compelled to ...
... witness to the anxiety which had been shown to find out subjects of taxation which would be most pro- ductive and least oppressive . A tax upon articles of luxury would not have answered the purpose . They were therefore compelled to ...
Página 179
... witness , at the present moment , the triumph of humanity over prejudice , and also would have had the satisfaction to consider that he had been the chief instrument , under Providence , in achieving it . The principles which CHAP . 5 ...
... witness , at the present moment , the triumph of humanity over prejudice , and also would have had the satisfaction to consider that he had been the chief instrument , under Providence , in achieving it . The principles which CHAP . 5 ...
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... witness- ed the unparalleled triumphs of the British Navy , would have been rec- koned a successful commander , was born at Elgin , in Scotland , in June 1745 , and received the rudiments of his education at the school of his native ...
... witness- ed the unparalleled triumphs of the British Navy , would have been rec- koned a successful commander , was born at Elgin , in Scotland , in June 1745 , and received the rudiments of his education at the school of his native ...
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... witness a spectacle of the most horrid and revolting descrip- tion , and which they soon found to be as frequent as it is disgustingly dreadful and inhuman . " Here our attention was forced from the astonishment of the crowd to a most ...
... witness a spectacle of the most horrid and revolting descrip- tion , and which they soon found to be as frequent as it is disgustingly dreadful and inhuman . " Here our attention was forced from the astonishment of the crowd to a most ...
Página 346
... witness . " The establishment of residences at the head quarters of the different chiefs of the interior for young men of talents , temper , and judgment , to collect and arrange statistical and geographical information , and to ex ...
... witness . " The establishment of residences at the head quarters of the different chiefs of the interior for young men of talents , temper , and judgment , to collect and arrange statistical and geographical information , and to ex ...
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Página 238 - An Act to prevent the training of persons to the use of arms and to the practice of military evolutions and exercise. 3. An Act for the more effectual prevention and punishment of blasphemous and seditious libels.
Página 330 - Nor was this promptitude and compass of knowledge confined in any degree to the studies connected with his ordinary pursuits. That he should have been minutely and extensively skilled in chemistry and the arts, and in most of the branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally known, that he was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and...
Página 329 - It has increased indefinitely the mass of human comforts and enjoyments; and rendered cheap and accessible, all over the world, the materials of wealth and prosperity. It has armed the feeble hand of man, in short, with a power to which no limits can be assigned; completed the dominion of mind over the most refractory qualities of matter ; and laid a sure foundation for all those future miracles of mechanic power which are to aid and reward the labours of after generations.
Página 318 - On the Progress of Mathematical and Physical Science since the Revival of letters in Europe.
Página 329 - Independently of his great attainments in mechanics, Mr. Watt was an extraordinary, and, in many respects, a wonderful man. Perhaps no individual in his age possessed so much and such varied and exact information, had read so much, or remembered what he had read so accurately and well. He had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious memory, and a certain rectifying and methodising power of understanding, which extracted something precious out of all that was presented to it.
Página 273 - It is an established principle of the laws of nations, that any individual of a nation making war against the citizens of any other nation, they being at peace, forfeits his allegiance, and becomes an outlaw and pirate. This is the case of Robert C. Ambrister, clearly shown by the evidence adduced.
Página 331 - His friends in this part of the country never saw him more full of intellectual vigour and colloquial animation, never more delightful or more instructive, than in his last visit to Scotland, in autumn, 1817.
Página 329 - It is our improved steam engine that has fought the battles of Europe, and exalted and sustained, through the late tremendous contest, the political greatness of our land.
Página 222 - Gentlemen of the House of Commons ; " I thank you for the supplies which you have granted for the service of the present year.
Página 331 - ... more instructive, — than in his last visit to Scotland in autumn 1817. Indeed, it was after that time that he applied himself, with all the ardour of early life, to the invention of a machine for mechanically copying all sorts of sculpture and statuary ; — and distributed among his friends some of its earliest performances, as the productions of a young artist just entering on his eighty-third year.